Marbles

Summary: A pair of twins finds themselves in a desert. Rejected by their own family the twins will need to survive with only a bag of magical marbles each.

Marbles

Tom brought his hand on top of his
squinted eyes that were looking at the burning sun in front of him, trying to
see the beautiful sunset that was going to happen in no time. He then sat down next to Sheila; he turned
his head towards her and grinned at her, trying to lift the mood around them.
He then, with Sheila turned towards the Sun and watched the most beautiful
sunset they could ever imagine, the clouds around the sun looked as if they
were burning in an eternal fire.

“Isn’t
it beautiful Sheila?” Tom asked.

“It’s
the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen!” Sheila exclaimed.

After watching the sunset they laid
down in their jackets looking their faces.

“Good night sister,” Tom whispered.

“Good night brother” Sheila
whispered back.

He smiled at Sheila and waited for
her to fall asleep; he then sat up slowly trying not to wake her up. Then, he
looked at the sky; the shimmering stars filled the dark sky. He felt as he was
at home, in the rooftop, with Sheila and him looking at the small amount of
stars that we were able to see in a city.

He couldn’t believe it they left
them. Their own family left him and his twin sister in the desert with only a
bottle of water to share between each other and two bags full of marbles, of
any color, texture and size you could imagine. Their so supposed family that
left them wasn’t really related to them, only Aunt Angela and their cousins
Jake and Eimear. The cousin’s father, who is called Bob, wasn’t related to them
so he wasn’t family. But they were very lucky because they had one thing their
family didn’t have, something that hadn’t been seen in centuries. And it was
magic. Both of them had magic and they figured by themselves how to use it
together. They found out they had magic when some bullies chased after them in
their old school and he tried to protect his sister from them. He remembered
when that happened perfectly, he had thought he lost his precious sister.

He and his sister ran through the
crowded streets, they were full of people in their cars that were leaving their
work and trying to reach home. There were also buses full of children who
finished school wanting to go to the park and have fun or just go home and do
their homework first and then play. He ran behind his sister, trying to make
the bullies attack him first and let his sister have a head start so she could
be safe and sound. Until they reached a dead end and they couldn’t go back
because the bullies were already at the entrance of the alley. He turned his
head around trying to find any exit, even if his sister could use it, he would
save her. He couldn’t find any, he only saw bins, that were so smelly that you
could faint if you went near it, and there was also rubbish thrown around as if
a tornado had passed through. But, he didn’t notice two beautiful brown leather
bags right behind them, but Sheila did.

His chest started to hurt from so much running
and his breathing was starting to be laborious. When he saw the bullies walking
slowly like a predator preparing to attack its prey, he put his body in front
of his sister in an attempt to protect her. He was starting to get desperate
when he saw the leader of the bullies, Josh, in front of the group with a big
sneer on his face. Josh was the typical bully, he was taller that most of the
children of his age so he had an advantage. His arms were mostly muscle from
all of the punches he did on the weaker children in the school. He always wore
the sneer in his face when he was bullying children, but when there were adults
around, he would have an angelic smile that seemed to radiate kindness. That is
why the adults didn’t punish him, because he was like an angel to them, and the
bullied children were the attention seekers to them. Josh was the one that
started it, he was the one that started their horrible life, and he made their
life impossible. He would push them in the halls when changing classes or he
would chase them after school, just like in that afternoon.

When Josh was a few paces away from
them, Tom started to get very scared, sweat poured out his forehead, and he
started to get shivers up his spine as if electricity was going through it.
Why? Well, because Josh had the biggest sneer Tom had ever seen in his face.
Without warning, Josh punched Tom’s face repeatedly times until Tom fell in the
ground in a fetal position, trying to block out the horrible pain coming from
his face. Unaware of what was happening to his sister or Josh he fainted from
all of the pain that he had never experienced.

When Tom fainted, Sheila had already
grabbed the two leather bags and looked inside, and she saw one of the most
beautiful marbles in the bag, it was transparent, but it had a swirl that was a
mix of dark blue, purple, magenta and sky blue. She grabbed it without
hesitation and pulled it out of the leather bag. With no warning the marble
shined as bright as a star and formed a sort of protection over Sheila and Tom.
When Josh wanted to break the sort of barrier he was thrown back and crashed
into the smelly bins. When the other bullies noticed that their leader was
defeated, they grabbed Josh by the arms and ran away from the twins as if the
twins could hurt them.

Later that week, Josh and Sheila
with the marbles trying to figure out what they did and they found out a lot
from them. One marble that had blue lines that looked like waves, if they pressed
it with one of their hands water would pour out of it. Another marble that
looked as if it was the roots of a tree, if they pressed it a small plant would
appear right under it. Any plant could grow if Tom or Sheila imagined it, even
if it was an imaginary plant, it would grow very fast.

Tom lay down on his side and looked
at the angelic face of his sister. He and his sister were identical twins and
they looked the same. They had the same hair and eye color; the shape of their
face was the same. They were identical in everything. She had bright red hair
that looked like fire and her eyes were green as emeralds. She also had a heart
shaped face and red lips. He had the same red hair that looked like fire and
green eyes that looked like emeralds. The both of them were 11 years old and
were pretty tall for their age; they were 1 meter and 65cm tall.

When they woke up, the sun was
rising from their left, so that meant that they had the north to their back.
They drank some water from the water bottle and refilled it with the marble
that had blue ripples in it. Then, they turned north and started walking
slowly. They
walked for 5 days non-stop with the water and no food; they noticed that their
bones started to be visible, from not eating a healthy diet, because there was
not much food in the desert. Also they had gotten a light tan from the walking
in the sun.

One afternoon, when the sun was
almost down, they saw black dots in the horizon. They didn’t know who they were
these people but Sheila and Tom continued their journey in the desert. Two
hours later they reached a Berber Camp. There were children running around the
camp laughing freely, Sheila smiled at the view. A man came to them with a
sword and Tom put his body in front of Sheila’s protectively and put his hands
in a sign that they wanted peace. The man understood them and let them in a
tent that was 3 meters in area, full of carpets and cushions. Tom and Sheila
sat in two very comfortable cushions in front of the leader of the Berbers. They
stayed in that tent with the leader of the Berbers for hours and they tried to
show him that they were not a danger to his people. In the end he understood
that they weren’t a threat and he let them in the clan in exchange of
resources, which were the marbles.

Tom and Sheila lived with the
Berbers having a free childhood for the first time of their lives. They married
other Berber and had children, which had the typical Irish hair. The red hair
was passed from generation to generation and never ended.

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